Kiyoshi Hasegawa

Kiyoshi Hasegawa (7 May 1883-2 September 1970) was an Admiral of the Imperial Japanese Navy who served as Governor-General of Taiwan from December 1940 to December 1944, succeeding Seizo Kobayashi and preceding Rikichi Ando.

Biography
Kiyoshi Hasegawa was born on 7 May 1883 in Fukui Prefecture, Japan, and he was wounded at the Battle of the Yellow Sea while serving in the Russo-Japanese War as a midshipman of the Imperial Japanese Navy. He graduated from the Naval War College in 1910, and he participated in the Siege of Tsingtao in October 1914 during World War I. In 1918, he was promoted to Commander while serving as a military attache in the United States, and he was a Rear Admiral by 1927. In May 1934, he became Vice-Minister of the Navy, and he was respected by Chinese admirals for his civil behavior. In 1938, he took command of the Yokosuka Naval District, and he governed Taiwan from 1940 to 1944. In 1946, he was acquitted of war crimes, and he oversaw the formation of the Japan Maritine Self-Defense Force before his death in 1970.